by Dan Williams | Oct 26, 2018 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Psychology, Weight Loss
The ‘enjoyment factor’ can be a major obstacle to starting and maintaining healthy exercise habits. Too often, exercise is perceived as a negative and, although no one doubts the benefits, the barrier to entry is just too great to be overcome. As with any...
by Dan Williams | Oct 12, 2018 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Psychology, Weight Loss
Maybe this is you… You get out of breath walking up the stairs. You’re a bit heavier now than you were a few years ago, and you know you’ll be a bit heavier in a few years than you are now. Your knees and back ache. Maybe you’re on medication. You’d like to be...
by admin | Aug 17, 2018 | Blogs, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight Loss
To celebrate the launch of the Training Tracker, we’ve distilled all the research on behaviour change down to just six steps. Follow these steps and write your future. We created the Training Tracker because people told us they needed a better way. A better way...
by Dan Williams | Aug 5, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Psychology
Ever get a dry mouth before a big event? Maybe it’s a job interview. Maybe it’s the CrossFit Open. Maybe you’re about to ask someone out on a date. Why do we get a dry mouth? And what can we learn from this experience to improve our performance?...
by Dan Williams | Jul 21, 2018 | Blogs, Health, Nutrition, Psychology
The key to breaking bad habits is to understand the cues that are driving your behaviours. In Charles Duhigg’s book, The Power of Habit, he talks about the habit loop: A cue triggers your brain to crave the response from a certain action. A routine is undertaken...
by Dan Williams | Jul 20, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Programming, Psychology
We talk a lot about the benefits of injury. The advantages we can find if we choose to perceive injury as an opportunity, not an invitation to stop training. In our eBook series, ‘Exercising with an Injury’ we talk more about injury as an opportunity:...
by Dan Williams | Jul 3, 2018 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight Loss
Habits drive our behaviours. 45% of everything you do in life is a habit. These are behaviours that require no conscious thought. No decision making. No choice. These are the behaviours that operate on autopilot. Habits save energy for the brain by removing the need...
by Dan Williams | Jun 21, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Programming, Psychology
Short-term lazy is when you look for the easy way to do things in the present, today. If faced with an immediate decision of whether to take the easy option or the hard option, the ‘short-term lazy’ person takes the easy option every time. And, in the...
by Dan Williams | Jun 7, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Programming, Psychology
EVENT 1: ROW, DU, RUN. In my mind, this was Helen’s best event of the weekend. Note I’m not defining ‘best’ as ‘highest finish. I’m defining ‘best’ as her ability to execute on the plan and exceed our expectations. In this case, the event was her lowest finish on the...
by Dan Williams | May 24, 2018 | Blogs, Health, Nutrition, Psychology
Have you always fought the scales? Has your health journey been defined by alternating chapters of weight loss and weight gain? Well, there’s a reason for it. And it’s not a problem with you. It’s not an indication of your lack of willpower or...
